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STOCKTON BORTON,`OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, AND JACOB C.

HANKEY, OF ARLINGTON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO THE WILL- COX du GIBBS SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

STAND FOR SEWING-MACHINES, 84C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,178, dated J une 5, 1900.

Application filed December 6,1898. Serial No. 698.456. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.:

residing in Providence, Rhode Island, and JACOBC. HANKEY, residing in Arlington, Hudson county, New Jersey, citizens of the United States, have invented an Improved Stand for Sewing-Machines, dac., of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a simple and eflicient sewing-machine table or stand of the class in which the sewing-machine is mounted so that-it can be dropped down out of sight below the level of the tabletop when not in use.

Our invention is primarily intended for sewing-machine stands and will be particularly described for such use; but it may be applied to stands or tables for other machines.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical sectional elevation of a sewing-machine stand constructed according to our irnprovements, the machine-leaf being shown as dropping to its depressed position when not in use and the View being taken from the rear side of the table or stand. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on thev line l 2, Fig. l, but showing the machine-leaf wholly down; and Fig. 3 is a sectional View showing the hinged leaf which supports the sewing-machine depressed and the sewing-machine as provided with an inclosing cover. l

The table or stand may be of any suitable type or style-that is to say, it may be of the cabinet style or of the open-stand varietywith or Without side drawers. Some of the features of our present invention are more particularly applicable to the open variety of sewing-machine stands, and for the sake of simplicity we have illustrated in the drawings one of t-he simplest forms of stands, consisting of a table-top A and two standards A', on one of which the ily-wheel F is carried.

The machine M is mounted on a tilting or swinging drop-leaf B, which is hinged to the table-top A on the side adjacent to the ilywheel F and which when raised to the horizontal position has its upper side iiush with the surface of the table and fits an opening A2 in the said table-top. Aspring-latch din the table engages with the leaf B to maintain A the leaf and machine in their raised posi- Be it known that we, STooKToN BoRToN, f

tions; but this latch is provided with a finger-pieced', Fig. l, by which it may be drawn back to release the machine-leaf when the latter has to be depressed. A hinged cover C may be employed, as shown in Figs. l and 2, to close the opening A2 when the machine is depressed or maybe turned outward, as shown by full lines in Fig. l, to form an eX- tension of the table-top when the machine is in use.

The tilting drop-leaf B may he hinged in any suitable manner to the table. As a convenient way of effecting this we provide a pair of brackets b upon the under side or opposite edges of the leaf B and pivot these brackets at b' to brackets or arms D on the under side of the table-top A adjacent to the fly-wheel F.

With the belt E, which passes from the llywheel F to the grooved pulley m, we combine devices which insure the retention of the belt `on the two wheels or pulleys when the machine is depressed, so that as soon as raised again the machine may be started at once. We so construct these belt-retaining means, moreover, that the belts will be slightly slackcned when the machine is depressed, but not to such an extent as to let the belt escape from the grooves of the pulleys. For this purpose the guiding means for the belt are placed out of coincidence with or at one side of the hinging-axis b of the drop-leaf B and are in such relation to that hinging-axis that the belt is carried past and away from such aXis when the drop-leaf is moved from the elevated yto the depressed position. By preference we provide two guiding devices for the belt, both out of coincidence with the hinging-axis, one guiding device insuring the retention of the belt on one pulley, while the other guiding device will insure the retention of the belt on the other pulley. In the present instance one guiding device-that to retain the belt on ythe tiy-wheel-consists of a pair of open hooks d, formed as extensions of the brackets D, to which the machine-leaf B is hinged. Slots or openings d in the leaf B, through which the belt is passed to go over the pulley m on the machine, may be availed IOO of to act as the other guiding means to retain the belt on this pulley, as shown in Fig. 3. Theseopenings are cut away, as at d2, to allow the belt to slacken when the machine is lowered. lVhen the drop-leaf is raised, the belt is carried free of both the hooks d and the sides of the holes cZ; but when the leaf is dropped the belt enters the open hooks and is caught thereby and bears also against the edges of the holes d', as shown in Figs. l and 3.

Vith the drop-leaf we combine an apron I), hinged at p to the under side of the tabletop in front of the drop-leaf. When -the drop -leaf is in its depressed position, the hinged apron P is in an approximately-vertical position, resting against the edge of the drop-leaf B and completely hiding the sewing-machine from any one looking at the stand from the front, as shown by full lines in Fig. 2. This hinged apron is acted on by springs, which may be at the hinges, as at p, Fig. 2, tending at all times to press the apron on its hinges from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2 to the position there shown by dotted lines. Vhen the drop-leaf and machine are elevated, the apron is raised by the springs to the position shown by dotted lines, so as to be ont of the Way of the knees of the operator at the machine. This hinged springapron has the further function or advantage 0f acting as a brake to the drop-leaf and machine when released from the catch a--that is to say, when the drop-leaf is released from the said retaining-catch the leaf will come into contact with the hinged spring-apron, which will yield slowly to the weight of the drop-leaf of the sewing-machine if the operator does not retain her hold of the machine as the leaf descends.

The sewing-machine is secured to the dropleai:` B by a thumb-screw T, Fig. 3, introduced from the under side through a hole in the leaf.

In order that the head of this ythumb-screw may not interfere with the connecting-rod plate R or part of the driving ily-wheel, we conntersink the under side of the drop-leaf, as shown at o in the drawings.

In order to protect the machine from dirt and dust, We provide an inclosing bag or cap N, of suitable fabric, preferably with an elastic mouth, so that when drawn over the machine it will engage the under side of the projecting parts and inclose the whole machine edectively, Fig. 3.

We claim as our invention- 1. A drop-leaf table for sewing and other machines, having a fly-wheel and a tilting drop-leaf carrying the machine and hinged to the table on the fly-wheel side, in combination with belt-retaining means ont of line with and at one side of the hinging-axis, whereby the belt is carried away from the latter when the leaf is dropped, substantially as described.

2. A drop-leaf stand for sewing-machines, &c., having a ily-wheel and a hinged tilting drop leaf, in combination with fixed open hooks out of line with the axis of the hinged y leaf and into which the belt can drop when the machine-leaf is depressed to retain thc belt on the fly-wheel.

3. A drop-leaf stand for sewing-machines, &c., having a ly-wheel and a drop-leaf carrying the machine, a hinge adjacent to the fly-wheel, with open hooks ont of line with the axis of the hinged leaf for the reception 0f the belt to retain it on the ily-wheel, the drop-leaf having openings for the passage, guidance and retention of the belt on the machine-pulley, substantially as described.

4. A drop-leaf stand for sewing-machines, dac., having the drop-.leaf hinged to the under side of the top of the stand, with open hooks ont of line with the axis of the hinged `leaf carried by the under side of the top of the stand to receive and retain the belt when the leaf is depressed, with belt-retaining devices carried by the leaf to retain the belt on the machine-pulley.

In testimony whereof wehave signed our names to this specification in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

STOCKTON BURTON. JACOB C. I-IANKEY.

Witnesses to the signature of S. Borton:

H. C. SOULE, C. I-I. EMERSON.

Titnesses to the signature of J. C. llankey:

F. WARREN WRIGHT, HUBERT HowsoN. 

